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| Author(s): | A. Clarke and F. Ticehurst (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 140393620X |
| Format: | hardback |
| 327pp | |
| Price: | £60.00 |
| Review Date: | 04 October 2006 |
| Review: | This book comprises 42 articles by different authors from the UK, Canada and the USA, each putting forward their own, sometimes sharply contradictory, positions towards human genetics. The articles have been divided into six groups, according to topic, beginning with ‘The Human Genome Project – Genetic research and commercialisation’. This is followed by ‘Genetic disease – Implications for individuals, families and populations’; ‘Disability, genetics and eugenics’; Genetics and society – Information, interpretation and representation’; ‘Genetic explanations – Understanding origins and outcomes’; and, finally, ‘Reproduction, cloning and the future’. |